When were you last ill? Mikor voltál utoljára beteg? – Az alábbi angol szöveggel szeretnék segítséget nyújtani az idősebb, gyakorlottabb nyelvtanulóknak – így akár iskolásoknak vagy felnőtteknek a nyelvvizsgához, beszélgetésekhez – a betegségek témaköréhez.
Last winter I had a bad cold. I got up in the morning with a splitting headache and dizziness. It hurt when I swallowed and I felt sore all over. I couldn’t help sneezing and my nose was running. I was shivering, coughing and I felt sick. I got worse and worse. I had a high temperature so I decided to see the GP.
I went to the local health centre and I waited for an hour in the waiting room because it was full of patients. When the assistant shouted, ’next please’, I entered the consulting room. The doctor examined me. He told me to strip to the waist. He felt my pulse, looked at my tongue and throat, took my blood pressure, listened to my heart and lungs. He diagnosed my illness and told me that I had all the sypmtoms of influenza. He gave me a penicillin injection and sent me to the laboratory for a blood test. He prescribed some medicine for me.
My mother went to the chemist’s and bought the medicine. I had to stay in bed for a few days, drink a lot of hot tea with lemon and keep warm. I had to take some antifebrile to keep the fever down, some menthol drops for my nose and a mixture for my throat.
Some three or four days passed when I started to feel a little bit better, my temperature dropped and the dizziness disappeared. In the meantime I was worried about school. How would I be able to make up for the loss of time? I read a lot and listened to music. Every day I had visitors.
After following the doctor’s advice and taking the medicine in the prescribed way, I soon recovered.